Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, February 6, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 4 - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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Conf. on Control Sys. and CS, Bucharest May 31-June 3, 01 (v15n4) IC-AI2001 Int Conf on AI, Las Vegas, NV Jun 25-28, 01 (v14n16) SOCO Soft Computing & Intell Sys for Industry, Scotland Jun 26-29, 01 (v14n18) CEF'2001 Sessions on EC in Econ. and Fin., New Haven, CN Jun 28-30, 01 (v15n4) ICML2001 18th Int Conf on Machine Learning, MA Jun 28-Jul 1, 01 (v14n16) AIME01 8th Euro Conf on AI in Medicine, Portugal Jul 1-4, 01 (v14n16) CIMCA2001 Int Conf on Comp Intelligence, Las Vegas Jul 4-6, 01 (v14n19) WOMAII Workshop on Memetic Algorithms, SF, CA Jul 7, 01 (v15n4) GECCO2001 Gen & Evolutionary Computation Conf, SF, CA Jul 7-11, 01 (v14n16) TARK VIII 8th Conf Theor Aspects of Ratnlty & Knowl, It Jul 8-10, 01 (v14n16) CIMCA2001 Int. Conf. on Comp. Int.,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) IAWTIC2001 Int. Conf. on Int. Agents,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) NASAEH 3rd Wrkshp on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadena, CA Jul 12-14, 01 (v15n2) IDAMAP2001 Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine & Phar Sep 4, 01 (v15n3) FUZZY DAYS Int Conf on Comp Intell, Dortmund, Germany Oct 1-3, 01 (v14n17) ICES2001 4th Int Conf on Evolvable Systems, Tokyo Oct 3-5, 01 (v14n19) IAT2001 2nd Asia Pac Conf on Intell Agent Tech, Japan Oct 23-26, 01 (v14n14) ICDM01 IEEE Int Conf on Data Mining, Silicon Valley, Nov 29-Dec 2, 01 (v14n14) FUZZ-IEEE01 10th IEEE Int Conf on Fuzzy Systems, Austr Dec 2- 5, 01 (v14n20) NF2002 1st Int ICSC Congress on Neuro-Fuzzy, Cuba Jan 15-18, 02 (v14n18) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu -------------- Sender: CIMCA Subject: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2001 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2001 9-11 July 2001 Las Vegas, USA http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm In Conjunction with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - iawtic'2001 http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= Honorary Chairs: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Las Vegas, USA on 9-11 July 2001. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, draft papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms & Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Industrial Automations Hybrid Systems Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification Signal Processing, Prediction & Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering, Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission ================ Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Extended abstract (4 pages) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2001 Secretariat School of Computing University of Canberra Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au E-mail submission is preferred. Extended abstract should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates =============== 16 March 2001 Deadline for submission of draft papers 16 April 2001 Notification of acceptance 16 May 2001 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 9-11 July 2001 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sentto the conference chair on or before April 9th, 2001. CIMCA'2001 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Invited Sessions Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main issues of the conference. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm Organising Committee Chair: Masoud Mohammadian School of Computing University of Canberra Canberra, 2601, Australia [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] -------------- Sender: CIMCA Subject: CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 9-11 July 2001 Las Vegas - USA http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm In Conjunction with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2001 9-11 July 2001 Las Vegas, USA http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and internet commerce. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and internet commerce: Conference Topics Include (but not limited to): Inteligent Agents: Agents Knowledge Management Intelligent Business Agents Agent Architectures Agents Environments and Languages Adaptation and learning for agents Human and agent interaction Interface agents Mobile agents Virtual agent-based marketplaces Agents and uncertainity The personalization and privacy issues for agents Automated shopping and trading agents Agent-oriented middleware services Social implications for agent Conceptual modeling and design of Ontologies for agents Agents and e-commerce Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce Performance measurement of e-commerce agents Rational information agents and electronic commerce Auction and negotiation for e-commerce agents Web Technologis: Web data mining and information retrieval Agent-based brokering and trade-mediating services Teaching on Web Virtual trading institutions Internet Commerce: Ecommerce applications of Knowledge Representation Reasoning Techniques Electronic Payment Systems Internet Marketing Intranets and Extranets for Electronic Commerce Electronic Payment Systems for Electronic Commerce Electronic Data Interchange for Electronic Commerce Supply Chain Management for Internet Commerce Applications Internet-based Electronic Commerce Virtual Communities/Community Networks Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce Government Electronic Procurement and Service Delivery Legal, Auditing or Security Issues for Electronic Commerce Requirements Engineering Approaches for Electronic Commerce Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Clustering Classification Paper Submission ================ Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Extended abstract (4 pages) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2001 Secretariat School of Computing University of Canberra Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au E-mail submission is preferred. Extended abstract should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates =============== 16 March 2001 Deadline for submission of draft papers 16 April 2001 Notification of acceptance 16 May 2001 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 9-11 July 2001 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before April 9th, 2001. CIMCA'2001 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Invited Sessions Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main issues of the conference. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm -------------- Sender: Hillol Kargupta Subject: 2nd CFP: GECCO-2001 Workshop and GP/EH Journal Special Issue on Gene Expression Workshop and Journal Special Issue on Computation in Gene Expression ===================================================================== GECCO-2001 Workshop, Date: Saturday, July 7, 2001 San Francisco, California, USA Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel And Special Issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Hardware Journal Chair: Hillol Kargupta University of Maryland Baltimore County Program Committee: James A. Foster, University of Idaho David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney Jim Smith, University of the West of England Terrence Soule, University of Idaho Dirk Thierens, Utrecht University Annie S. Wu, University of the Central Florida Overall Description: The gene expression process in nature extracts the information coded in the DNA in order to generate the phenotype of a living organism. This process includes the production of proteins from the DNA through the construction of mRNA and the subsequent expression during the different developmental stages. It is a very important biological process. It also appears to be very important from the perspective of genetic search. The Gene expression manipulates of the genetic representation. Representation plays an important role in problem-solving which is widely acknowledged in many fields such as physics, mathematics, engineering, machine learning, optimization and many others. Representation transformations are often used in these fields for solving problems efficiently. Therefore representation transformations and manipulations in gene expression allude intriguing possibilities. This workshop will focus on the expression of the genome and its role in evolutionary computation. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1) Theoretical and experimental analysis of representation transformations offered by the natural gene expression process. 2) Relation of gene expression and efficient, scalable evolutionary computation. 3) Design, implementations, and experiments of evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategy and other algorithms that are directly motivated by the gene expression process. 4) Applications of gene expression-based algorithms. 5) Representational issues in evolutionary algorithms. 6) Linkage learning, redundancy in evolutionary representation. Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to contribute in a special issue of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal, Kluwer. Deadlines for the Workshop Paper submission: February 25, 2001 Acceptance/Rejection notification: March 24, 2001 Camera-ready copy submission: April 20, 2001 Workshop papers may be up to six pages long. Authors may send their papers (in postscript or PDF version through e-mail) to the following address: Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA Voice: 410-455-3972 Fax: 410-455-3969 hillol@cs.umbc.edu http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol Extended versions will be requested for the Journal submissions. For more details see: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/GECCO2001/gexp.html -------------- Sender: Chia-Hsuan Yeh Subject: CFP: CEF'2001 Sessions on EC in Economics and Finance ********************************************** * * * Call for Papers * * * * Sessions on * * * * Evolutionary Computation in * * Economics and Finance * * * * 7th International Conference * * of the * * Society for Computational Economics * * on * * Computing in Economics and Finance * * (CEF'2001) * * * * June 28-30, 2001 * * Yale University, New Haven * * Connecticu, U.S.A. * ********************************************** Organizor: Berc Rustem Correspondence: Berc Rustem Department of Computing Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK Tel: 44 (0)20 7594 8345 Fax: 44 (0)20 7581 8024 E-mail: br@doc.ic.ac.uk Scope: In the last two years, CEF has consecutively hosted special sessions on Evolutionary Computation in Economics and Finance (ECEF). This series of events aims at bringing together economists to explore current development of evolutionary computation (EC) in economic and financial modeling, simulation and computation. These special sessions, along with many similar events have revealed some promising features of EC in the study of option pricing, time series modeling, economic forecasting, trading strategies, oligopoly games, bargaining behavior, economic experiments, and artificial financial markets. Through these applications, EC tools such as genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, evolutionary strategies and evolutionary artificial neural nets have been introduced to a larger circle of economists, and also provides us with a better opportunity to reflect upon the chances which we may have from these tools. As a continuation of this learning process, this year we will organize special sessions on the 7th SCE conference at Yale University. Papers addressing novel applications of EC techniques to economics, game theory and finance, and methodologies are cordially solicited. Authors wishing to present a paper should submit a 4-page extended abstract or a full paper via the conference webpage, http://gemini.econ.yale.edu/conference/SCE2001 The conference Web site will begin accepting submissions on January 1, 2001, and will continue to accept submissions through March 1, 2001. To expedite the screening process, a menu is provided on the webpages allowing precategorization of submissions. Authors are advised to indicate the program committee member by whom the submission is to be considered. For example, to have a paper included in the sessions on ``Evolutionary Computation in Economics and Finance'', one should choose Berc Rustem as the conference program committee member by whom the submission is to be considered. For any further information, please contact Berc Rustem Department of Computing Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK Tel: 44 (0)20 7594 8345 Fax: 44 (0)20 7581 8024 E-mail: br@doc.ic.ac.uk or Shu-Heng Chen AI-ECON Research Center Department of Economics National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan 11623 Tel: 886-2-29387308 Fax: 886-2-27386874 E-mail: chchen@nccu.edu.tw http://www.aiecon.org/ -------------- Sender: Natalio Krasnogor Subject: WOMA II - Second call for papers **** PLEASE APOLOGIZE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS MESSAGE **** Dear Colleague, You are invited to submit papers to the "2nd Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA II)". WOMA II will be held within the "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001)" in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. the 7th of July 2001 at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel. The Workshop is open to the participation of all GECCO-2001 attendees. Memetic algorithms (MAs) are evolutionary algorithms (EAs) that apply a separate local search process to refine individuals (i.e. improve their fitness by hill-climbing). Under different contexts and situations, MAs are also known as hybrid EAs, genetic local searchers, Baldwinian EAs, Lamarkian EAs, Cultural Algorithms, etc. Combining global and local search is a strategy used by many successful global optimization approaches, and MAs have in fact been recognized as a powerful algorithmic paradigm for evolutionary computing. In particular, the relative advantage of MAs over EAs is quite consistent on complex search spaces. It is the purpose of this workshop to bring together researchers working on the general topic of Memetic Algorithms. This workshop is the second edition of a previous Workshop held at GECCO2000 in Las Vegas last year. It will provide a forum for both: - identifying and exploring the key issues that affect the theory, design and application of MAs and - the development of new collaborations between people involved with MAs in the academia and industry. The topics of interest are (but not limited to): * Theory of Memetic Algorithms and Memetics. * Applications of MAs on continuous, discrete and mixed domains. * Memetic Algorithms for multi-objective optimization. * Hybridization issues for constrained problems. * MAs applied to dynamic optimization. * Frameworks for describing and classifying MAs. * Practical guidelines to combine local search and EAs. * Scalability of MAs. * Distinction between `intelligent' evolutionary operators and local search. * Distributed/Parallel MAs. * Tools and software engineering of MAs. Submission details like deadlines, style, publication, etc are described in WOMA II web page at http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno/WOMAII/WOMAII.html. Authors are invited to submit 2 to 4 pages-long extended abstracts papers. The papers must fulfill GECCO-2001 main conference papers formatting instructions. The planned deadlines for authors are: * March 26, Paper submission deadline (electronic copies preferable). * April 7, Notification of paper acceptance/rejection. * April 20, Camera ready paper (ONLY hard copies accepted). * July 7, WOMA II in San Francisco. The organizers of WOMA II will appreciate if you can send a letter of intention that will help with organizational matters. Furthermore, if you have any inquiry please don't hesitate to contact any of the organizers. Looking forward to meeting you in WOMA II!!! William Hart Natalio Krasnogor Jim Smith. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** Contact Details: William E. Hart Optimization/Uncertainty Estimation Dept (9211), MS 1110 P.O. Box 5800, Sandia National Labs Albuquerque, NM 87185-1110 Phone: (505) 844-2217 FAX : (505) 845-7442 Email: wehart@sandia.gov Web : www.cs.sandia.gov/~wehart/main.html Natalio Krasnogor Intelligent Computer Systems Centre Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics University of the West of England Coldarbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY United Kingdom. Phone: +44 (0) 117 3443357 FAX : +44 (0) 117 9750416 Email: natalio2.krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk Web : www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno Jim E. Smith Intelligent Computer Systems Centre Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics University of the West of England Coldarbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY United Kingdom. Phone: +44 (0) 117 3443161 FAX : +44 (0) 117 9750416 Email: jim.smith@ics.uwe.ac.uk Web : www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~jsmith ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** -- ____________________________________________________________________________ NATALIO KRASNOGOR Intelligent Computer Systems Centre Research Assistant Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics Visiting Lecturer Frenchay Campus, Office 3p30 University of the West of England Tel.: +44 - 0117 - 3443357 Coldarbour Lane Fax.: +44 - 0117 - 3443182 Bristol, BS16 1QY United Kingdom. URL: http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno e-mail: Natalio2.Krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk nkrasno@cs.sandia.gov nkrasnogor@hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Henri Poincare. -------------- Sender: Catalin Buiu Subject: CFP - CSCS13 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE CSCS13 May 31- June 3, 2001 Bucharest, Romania http://cscs13.cib.pub.ro ******************************************************************************* Organized by: Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics Faculty of Control and Computers, "POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest In cooperation with: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ IMPORTANT DEADLINES March 15, 2001: submission of draft papers April 15, 2001: notification of acceptance May 10, 2001: submission of camera ready paper +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The organizers of CSCS13 would like to invite contributions at this by now traditional event (every two years). It is believed that virtual world and reality, however well simulated, cannot and will not replace direct contact and exchange of ideas among humans. The aim of CSCS13 is to cover hot areas in control system, and computer science, concentrating on the specific topics listed below: 1. ADVANCEDCONTROL - adaptive and optimal control, - robust control, - advanced control algorithms, - intelligent control, - neural systems, - modeling and simulation, - cognitive and learning systems. 2. APPLICATIONS OVER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - distributed and multiprocessor control systems, - computer networks. 3. ADVANCES IN MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING - control of industrial robots, - flexible manufacturing cells, - computer integrated manufacturing. 4. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS - parallel systems, - VLSI structure design. 5. ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE - artificial vision and AI techniques, - programming languages and environments, - evolutionary computing: theory and applications, - software engineering and applications, - software architectures - advanced operating systems, - computer aided software design (CASE), - natural languages. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS The Program Committee will select the contributions. Please send your draft paper(s) in four copies, printed on A-4 sheets, font Times New Roman, size 12. The paper's length should not exceed 8 pages. Each paper must be accompanied by an abstract of 150 words and a list of keywords (which should bear relevance to CSCS13 scope of topics). Details about author(s) must be provided: first name, last name, affiliation, position, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address. For papers with multiple authors the contact person must be indicated. -------------- Sender: "Martin C. Martin" Subject: User supplied fitness functions Hey all, I'm looking for examples of ECs where the user(s) supply the fitness function. As I recall, in "the early days of the web," the there was a genetic music page. There were 10 sound clips, and visitors to the site could rate each of them. When enough ratings were in, it would use the (average?) rating as the fitness, and create the next generation. Anyone have a link to this, or more info? There was also Richard Dawkin's program for a Mac, which would evolve "stick figures." I think he vaguely intended them to look like trees, but they ended up looking like insects and all sorts of crazy stuff. Does anyone remember the name of the program or which book it was in? Was it in his TV show? Anyone know of any other examples? Thanks, Martin -------------- Sender: Simon Parsons Subject: Agents 2001 - Call for Demonstrations ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Montreal, Canada, Monday 28 May - Friday 1 June 2001 http://autonomousAgents.org/2001 The conference will feature software and robot demonstrations, and the organising committee invites submissions from those interested in demonstrating their systems. February 23, 2001 Deadline for Robot Demonstrations February 23, 2001 Deadline for Software Demonstrations More details on demonstrations may be found on the conference web site. -------------- Sender: Günter Bachelier Subject: Q: references of EA in Cognitive Science Hello! Did someone have references or a bibliographie of EA in Cognitive Science? Please send emails, I will summarize them. Thank you very much. Günter Bachelier ------------------------------------------------------------- Günter Bachelier, M.A. Information Science, University Saarland, Germany guba@stud.uni-sb.de ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Sender: fuzz-ieee01 Subject: Final CFP: FUZZ-IEEE 2001 *************************************************************************** Call for Papers The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001) December 2-5, 2001, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Sponsored by IEEE Neural Networks Council "Meeting the grand challenge: machines that serve people" Website: http://www.csse.melbourne.edu/FUZZ-IEEE2001 Students: Partial travel scholarships are available from the IEEE Neural Network Council. Please check http://www.arc.unm.edu/~karen/IEEE_NNC/Student_Travel_Grants/ Important dates: Paper submission Friday, 2 March 2001 Notification of acceptance Friday, 1 June 2001 Final manuscripts Friday, 3 August 2001 General enquiry please contact the secretariat of FUZZ-IEEE 2001: fuzz-ieee2001@csse.melbourne.edu *************************************************************************** The FUZZ-IEEE 2001 conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, one of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the Southern Hemisphere. Melbourne is also one of the safest, healthiest, and cleanest cities in the world, and is Australia's pre-eminent centre for arts and culture, education, fine food and dining and exciting shopping experiences. The conference will cover a broad range of research topics related to fuzzy logic and soft computing, including but not limited to: T1: Pattern recognition and image processing: supervised and unsupervised learning, classifier design and integration, signal/image processing and analysis, computer vision, multimedia applications. T2: Electronic and robotic systems: fuzzy logic in robotics, automation, and other industrial applications, fuzzy hardware design and implementation. T3: Soft computing and hybrid systems: intelligent information systems, database systems, data mining, intelligent agents, neuro-fuzzy systems, Internet computing. T4: Control systems: fuzzy control theory and applications. T5: Mathematics: foundations of fuzzy logic, approximate reasoning, evolutionary computation. Authors are invited to submit 6 copies of full papers for review. Papers should be written in English, not exceeding 7 single-sided pages on A4 or letter-size paper, in one-column format with 1-inch margin on all four sides, in Times or a similar font of 10 points or larger. Faxed or e-mailed papers will not be accepted. The first page of each paper must include the following information: - title of the paper, - names(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), - abstract of the paper, - maximum 5 keywords, - technical area of the paper (T1, T2, T3, T4 or T5, choose one only), - name, postal address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the contact author. Please send papers to: Secretariat of FUZZ-IEEE 2001 Conference Management The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia E-mail: fuzz-ieee2001@csse.melbourne.edu *************************************************************************** [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] -------------- Sender: z17b3 Subject: What is a structural representation in chemistry? Dear colleagues, The following paper that proposes some revolutionary ideas related to the nature of structural representation in chemistry might be (either directly or indirectly) of interest to you: http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/cadd.ps (the abstract is appended below). Please note that although the applied focus of the paper is the area of computer aided drug design, ANY other area of theoretical or applied chemistry could have been chosen instead. Best regards, Lev Goldfarb Tel: 506-458-7271 Faculty of Computer Science Tel(secret.): 453-4566 University of New Brunswick Fax: 506-453-3566 P.O. Box 4400 E-mail: goldfarb@unb.ca Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3 Home tel: 506-455-4323 Canada http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/goldfarb.htm ***************************************************************************** WHAT IS A STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION IN CHEMISTRY: TOWARDS A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR CADD? Lev Goldfarb, Oleg Golubitsky, Dmitry Korkin Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick, P.O Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B., Canada ABSTRACT. A fundamentally new (and, we believe, the first) model for structural representation of molecules, with general emphasis on drug design applications, is outlined. This is the first formal model that was motivated by the structural description of classes. The model, in particular, guarantees the inheritance of the chemical structural class information from the parent class to all its subclasses. Inadequacies of the conventional models used in computer aided drug design (CADD) for molecular representation and classification as well as the advantages of the proposed--evolving transformation system (ETS)--model are discussed. Some advantages of the ETS model is its capability to represent naturally all important structural features of molecules, e.g. different atoms and their bonding types (including hydrogen bonding), basic 2D and 3D isometries, the molecular class structure. The model allows one not only to classify a compound, but also to construct a chemically valid compound from the class of compounds that was previously learned. Hence, in particular, the model offers a much more precise "language" for chemical structural formulas. The central role of the class learning problem in CADD is suggested. Moreover, we propose the ETS model as a unified framework for the class learning problem and therefore as a unified formal framework for CADD. This would allow considerable streamlining of the CADD by assigning to the chemist the role of an interactive user of the system rather that a role of a human weak link within the CADD process. -------------- Sender: Peter Cowling Subject: Research Assistant Post at the University of Nottingham Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioinformatics School of Chemistry & School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham Applicants are invited to apply for a BBSRC funded postdoctoral position to work on a collaborative project with the Computational Biophysics group in the School of Chemistry and the Automated Scheduling Planning and Optimisation Group (ASAP) in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology. The project will involve developing and applying the latest meta-heuristics and hybrid meta-heuristic approaches to a variety of prediction problems relating protein sequence to structure and function. Salary will be competitive, depending on qualifications and experience. The post is available immediately. The appointment will be for one year, in the first instance, and renewable for a further two years by mutual agreement. Candidates should have a PhD in the Physical Sciences, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related discipline. Programming experience and/or familiarity with protein structure is desirable, but not essential. Nottingham is a vibrant city in the East Midlands of England, near the Peak District National Reserve and only 2 hours from London. It has excellent connections, with the international East Midlands airport only 10 miles away. Home of Robin Hood, the city also features many lively bars, restaurants, theatres and museums. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Jonathan Hirst, Email: Jonathan.Hirst@Nottingham.ac.uk. Further details are also available on the WWW at: http://dirac.chem.nott.ac.uk/~jhirst/Public/index.html. Candidates should send a detailed CV, together with the names and addresses of two referees, to Dr J D Hirst, School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Closing date: 1st March, 2001. -------------- End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************